The longest recession the country has endured since the Great Depression ended in June 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, a panel of academic economists based in Cambridge, Mass., that dates the beginning and end of recessions. Users of syracuse.com gave a collective "huh?" In an unscientific poll of syracuse.com users that's attached to the story,...
View full sizeDottie Albertie fills a bag of food for Douglas Willock and Stephen Smith on Sept. 16 in Miami's Pass-It-On Ministries. The unemployed men were given advice about job fairs and a week's worth of food. The ranks of the working-age poor climbed to the highest level since the 1960s as the recession threw millions of people out of work last year, leaving one in seven Americans in poverty, the Census said last week.The longest recession the country has endured since the Great Depression ended in June 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, a panel of academic economists based in Cambridge, Mass., that dates the beginning and end of recessions.
Users of syracuse.com gave a collective "huh?" In an unscientific poll of syracuse.com users that's attached to the story, less than 10 percent of people said their financial situation has improved since June. Nearly 54 percent of respondents said their financial situation was worse, and 36 percent said it remained the same.
syracuse.com user chanman said it best:
"Then I must be a dummy. I thought it was still going on, and even getting worse for some people. Must be that the government workers are doing okay."
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